vetches

This was thanks to the hot dry spring, which has triggered an early flush of high-summer flowers: foxgloves, thistles and knapweeds, clovers and vetches.

Plantwatch: high summer comes early 2011

Celebrate the arrival of spring at the Hampyeong Butterfly Festival, where butterflies by the thousands from dozens of species flutter across the garden grounds and beds of Russian irises, milk vetches and other flowers.

What to See, What to Do Seo Ji-eun 2010

In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers.

Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2010

We pushed through head-high bracken, emerging in meadows filled with harebells and yellow vetches.

Making a romantic splash on a wild swim in Wales 2010

Rifts of chamomile and vetches rise up out of the cracks, long pools of water collect.

Ruelles Verte Lemon Hound 2009

We find in them a quantity of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat.

Les Miserables 2008

“On gold and silver and camels and oxen and sheep and wheat and barley and holcus and millet and beans and vetches and rice and raisins and dates.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

We cannot consider as of one of these ordeals, the usage by which the most important enterprises were made to depend upon the manner in which the sacred pullets ate their vetches.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Benta was well supplied with Indian corn and a grain which the natives called choroko, which I take to be vetches.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Three of his counsellors now visited us, and we gave them a handsome present for their chief, who came himself next morning and made us a present of a goat, a basket of boiled maize, and another of vetches.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004